This is a simple MTC timecode display built on the Arduino
platform:

    http://www.arduino.cc/

You'll need to build a MIDI interface such as the following:

    http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1187962258/

and hook up an eight digit 7 segment display using a MAX7221
controller:

    http://www.wayoda.org/arduino/ledcontrol/index.html

More information is available at:

    http://www.padl.com/~lukeh/MTC.pdf

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Luke Howard <[email protected]>
April, 2008